Please share your Tech Suit Eulogies here. It's just a matter of time before they're gone for good.
Morn the passing,
celebrate the life.
Remember the moments.
Share your stories, anecdotes.
Personify your suit.
Tech Suit you were so good to me. You helped me keep it together when I was falling apart (at the end of my races) Despite the rips & wardrobe malfunctions we had some pretty good times together and it's sad to think you're really gonna split. I hope the powers that be won't take you from me, but if they do, I'll miss you and the slick floaty feeling you gave me when we swam together as one.
Parents
Former Member
(With apologies to A. E. Housman)
To a Nero Comp banned too soon
The time you won your team the race
We'd bought you at the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you nice and dry.
Smart suit, to slip betimes away
From pools where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their tech suits out,
Swimmers whom renown outswam
And the name died before the man.
So set, before their echoes fade,
The medals on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
That rubber suit all zippered up.
(With apologies to A. E. Housman)
To a Nero Comp banned too soon
The time you won your team the race
We'd bought you at the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you nice and dry.
Smart suit, to slip betimes away
From pools where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their tech suits out,
Swimmers whom renown outswam
And the name died before the man.
So set, before their echoes fade,
The medals on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
That rubber suit all zippered up.
